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Judge Weighs Mistrial in Derrick Rose’s Civil Rape Case

Knicks guard Derrick Rose testified Tuesday that a sexual encounter in 2013 was consensual, as the judge in his civil case weighed the possibility of a mistrial

Updated Oct. 11, 2016 9:11 p.m. ET

LOS ANGELES—Knicks guard Derrick Rose, testifying for a second day in his civil sexual-assault trial here Tuesday, said the plaintiff in the case initiated the sex they had on an August night in 2013, and that he began to suspect that she would claim she was raped mere hours after the encounter.

Meanwhile, the judge in the case openly pondered whether to declare a mistrial in Rose’s case after learning that the plaintiff’s attorneys...